Sentence examples for standoff either from inspiring English sources

One of the issues confronting those Democrats who have fled to Illinois is to what extent they can enter into good-faith negotiations to end the current standoff, either by putting a sunset provision on eliminating collective bargaining rights for public sector unions or by eliminating the issue altogether.

Which raises the question about when the president and the icon had their Happy Valley standoff, did either think that the other knew about the alleged, vicious preying on young boys by Sandusky, a longtime insider?

Renewing the interim deal isn't a long-term solution to the nuclear standoff for either side.

The standoff could have gone either way, just as the war could go either way.

But the French helped create the current either-or standoff with their intransigence earlier on.

James Carville, an architect of Bill Clinton's election in 1992, contended that politically it would be difficult for either side to prolong the standoff beyond the Florida Supreme Court.

The biological warfare agent simulants were released in a semi-closed aerosol chamber at 210 m standoff distance and excited by light at either of the two wavelengths using the same instrument.

An extended standoff will likely make customers hesitate to buy either product, resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars in lost sales.

Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said he had received strong signs from India and Pakistan today that tensions between them were decreasing, but he ended his 36 hours of cross-border diplomacy without concrete agreements from either side on easing their military standoff.

The standoff could end one of two ways, with either the blue or the green block tipping forward, as if bowing down, and receding into the background to allow the other block to pass.

Standoff still going, ~40 protesters still here on either side of w Florissant and stein.